when it was alive???   Never seen one this big on the bank.  What is your guess. Hope the pic works.

9-10 lbs?

Dan

Hard to tell. I would say about 7 or 8 lbs.  

It is hard to say, 7-10 I guess.  Would have been a great fish to catch.  Too bad....

Hmmm he seems pretty high up on the bank. It might have been caught and then left on the bank by some irresponsible idiot. Some people just kill fish for the sake of killing them. Too bad. Anyway I hope that was not the case and that the fish died of natural causes then was removed from the water later....

It's got a pretty big head on it, i'd say around 8-10.

6-7lbs

6-10     The fish looks like it had alot of potenial.

Matt

If thats a Varner Bass it probably weighed 9.5 pounds. I saw two guys at the ramp showing one off to everyone a couple days back and keeping it out of the water way too long before releasing it. I tried to get it to swim off but it still wasn't doing too well when I left it and didn't look like it would make it. They pretty much killed it just so they could haul it around in a livewell with no pump to show it to the people thay passed and saw at the ramp. They never intended to keep the fish but just wanted to show it off.

About 7lbs.

If thats a Varner Bass it probably weighed 9.5 pounds. I saw two guys at the ramp showing one off to everyone a couple days back and keeping it out of the water way too long before releasing it. I tried to get it to swim off but it still wasn't doing too well when I left it and didn't look like it would make it. They pretty much killed it just so they could haul it around in a livewell with no pump to show it to the people thay passed and saw at the ramp. They never intended to keep the fish but just wanted to show it off.

You are right Randall.  I stopped off at Varner to walk to bank a bit. Fish had floated down by the fishing pier.  Pretty sad to end up killing one like this just to show it off.  Next time you see them tell them a trophy fish deserves better treatment than to end up like this.  

If they were gonna kill it might as well have ate it  :

man what a shame. i'd say about 8lbs.

i was at a private farm pond and i saw a bass about 13" a foot or so away from the waters edge. it was really hard and fully in tact. i wondered how it got there? cuz im pretty much the only person that fishes there, and anyone else that fishes there wouldnt be that irresponsible. how do fish "naturally" get on the bank?

man what a shame. i'd say about 8lbs.

i was at a private farm pond and i saw a bass about 13" a foot or so away from the waters edge. it was really hard and fully in tact. i wondered how it got there? cuz im pretty much the only person that fishes there, and anyone else that fishes there wouldnt be that irresponsible. how do fish "naturally" get on the bank?

Snake or another critter

Maybe even a muskrat Dave.

Dang that is a big dead fish, I would say 1o pounds also

Maybe even a muskrat Dave.

ok yeah i ve seen muskrats there before. i saw one run out of the chopped up cornfield and dive into a hole at the edge of the water. there are also alot of turtles there. but this fish only had two small holes in it, it wasnt all eaten apart or anything.... :-?